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The crew of Essential Voices shares what they’ve learned through our conversations with essential workers.
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Walter Merino, Terence Abram, and Dr. Sara Velasco are all essential workers who went above and beyond to take care of their communities during the height of the pandemic. Walter Merino runs the Olé Soccer Club, where he coached young players from afar and made sure that even if they weren’t on the field, their team had their back. Terence Abram is an occupational therapist at a nursing facility in Los Angeles, who was there for his patients even when their families could not be. Finally, Dr. Sara Velasco has been a family physician for over 40 years and kept up her duty of care when her families needed her the most.
Learn more about Olé Soccer Club: http://www.olesoccer.org/
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Andres Almeida is a server at a restaurant in New York, along with being a graduate student and advocate for the organization, One Fair Wage. The restaurant he works at didn’t close during the pandemic, so Andres tells us all about what it was like working during all the different stages of the past couple years, including adapting to new safety regulations, but also adapting to the attitudes of different customers. Roundtable guests: chef and host of Broken Bread, Roy Choi, and author and President of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman.
Learn more about One Fair Wage: https://onefairwage.site/
Learn more about Broken Bread: https://www.kcet.org/shows/broken-bread
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Please note this episode deals with discussions of sexual and domestic violence.
Solange Ramkissoon has worked as part of a sexual assault response team and answers the phone when someone calls into their hotline. Throughout the pandemic when the instructions were to stay at home to stay safe from Covid, home was often the least safe place to be for those at risk of assault within the home. Throughout the pandemic when intimate partner violence increased with lockdowns, Solange and her team were answering phones and were 24/7 lifelines to support survivors. Roundtable guests: actress and advocate Gabrielle Union and expert on gender-based violence prevention and response, Lina AbiRafeh.
Learn more about SAVE of Essex County: https://www.familyserviceleague.org/save-of-essex#:~:text=SAVE%20of%20Essex%20County%20operates,%2C%20friends%2C%20and%20significant%20others.
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Last week we spoke with Miski Noor about their community organizing in Minneapolis. To continue that conversation this week, we'll speak with Benjamin Crump who is one of the foremost figures in our current social justice movement. He has represented families in multiple high-profile police violence cases, including the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. He has been leading the same fight in the courtroom that Miski and Black Visions have been leading on the front lines in Minneapolis. Part two of two.
Learn more about Benjamin Crump: https://bencrump.com/
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Miski Noor is an organizer and writer based in Minneapolis, MN where they are Co-Director with Black Visions, a power and base-building force for Black Queer and Trans people and their families within the larger Movement for Black Lives. They were mere blocks from George Floyd when he was murdered in 2020 and can speak to what it was like protesting during a pandemic along with how transformative justice informs their vision for a brighter future in Minneapolis. Part one of a two part series.
Learn more about Black Visions: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/home1
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Last week we spoke to Longshoreman Nicole Salima and truck driver Armando Pacheco, who are both essential workers in the global supply chain. This week we will be in conversation with Mayor Robert Garcia of Long Beach and Wall Street Journal journalist Christopher Mims, to learn more about the larger world that both Nicole and Armando participate within, how the pandemic has affected the global supply chain and how we support the folx behind the wheels and at the ports. Part Two of a Two part series.
Learn more about Arriving Today: https://www.amazon.com/Arriving-Today-Factory-Everything-Changed/dp/006298795X
Learn more about Chain Reaction (WSJ documentary): https://www.wsj.com/video/series/chain-reaction/why-global-supply-chains-may-never-be-the-same-a-wsj-documentary/4EFE56B6-8A1D-4478-9F88-8F055AFBF675
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It takes the work of many hands to get the products we all rely on from the factory to our homes. What to the consumer may just be the push of a button, requires the heavy lifting of factory workers, longshoreman, truck drivers and hundreds more. Nicole Salima and Armando Pacheco are two of the workers responsible for that heavy lifting. Nicole Salima is a longshoreman at the Port of Long Beach and Armando Pacheco has been a commercial truck driver for decades. They both continued working throughout the pandemic in the face of progressively more difficult and more dangerous working conditions. Part One of a two part series.
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Last week in Part One of our series about EMS responders during the pandemic, we heard from FDNY EMS Lieutenant Anthony Almojera about what it was like on the front lines fighting Covid-19 in New York City. In our roundtable this week, we reflect on Anthony’s story with grief expert and psychotherapist, Megan Devine. We’ll learn more about the impact of the pandemic on medical professionals and first responders as a whole and how we process and care for each other’s collective grief.
Learn more about Refuge in Grief: https://refugeingrief.com/
Learn more about Here After: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-here-after-with-megan-dev-89497701/?fbclid=IwAR2XTDDXv5s3Ank0vdIIZscxJsid-dHx1Wp4bvWnKe1xJZaJXrsravcOjy4
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First responders like EMS professionals are often on the receiving end of the calls we wish we didnât have to make when an emergency hits. A job that not only sees emergencies but also the beginning of new lives, EMS responders support medical transitions of all kinds. Anthony Almojera has witnessed the full spectrum of these medical calls throughout his time as an EMS paramedic in New York City, a job that was greatly amplified when the pandemic hit. As the vice president for Union Local 3621 and an FDNY EMS Lieutenant, Anthony is also a mental healthcare advocate and support system for his fellow EMS professionals.
Learn more about: EMS FDNY Help Fund (https://emsfdnyhelpfund.com/)
Learn more about Anthony Almojera (https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Riding-the-Lightning/9780358652878)
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Californiaâs fire seasons have become more like year-round fire years. For firefighters on the frontlines, safety is the number one priority when wildfires erupt. When these fires strike, thereâs often a shortage of civilian firefighters to stop the spread. California has a long history of using incarcerated labor to supplement industries in need of additional assistance- including firefighting. For Gabriel Perez, a formerly incarcerated firefighter, his passion to serve his community by protecting it from fires began while he was incarcerated, and continues every day while he works to keep his community fire safe, even during a pandemic. Roundtable guests: Brandon Smith, co-founder of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, and Jaime Lowe, author of Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires.
Learn more about FFRP: https://www.forestryfirerp.org/
Learn more about Breathing Fire: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374116187/breathingfire
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Shawn Troy is a family man whose commitment to care extends not just to his relatives, but his community as well. As funeral director at Troyâs Funeral Home in Mullins, South Carolina, he cares for the deceased and their loved ones. With the pandemic, Shawn had to grapple not only with a rising number of deaths due to COVID, but also how to properly honor those losses with social distancing in place. Roundtable guests: Reporter, Producer & host of the Better Together podcast, Maria Menounos, and author and founder of the Faith Matters Network, Reverend Jen Bailey.
Learn more about Better Together with Maria Menounos: https://mariamenounos.com
Learn more about To My Beloveds and Faith Matters Network: https://www.reverendjen.com
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Carolina Reyes always wanted to work with children and started the Arco Iris Bilingual Childrenâs Center so they could get the best possible early education in both English and Spanish. When the pandemic hit, it was harder to keep the center open, but Carolina didnât waiver and pushed forward to ensure her students could continue learning and her teachers could continue teaching. Now open again, Arco Iris is a safe haven for the youngest of our community to learn how to thrive. Roundtable guests: Model, divemaster, and mother Amanda Pacheco and Dr. Lynette Fraga, CEO of Child Care Aware of America.
Learn more about Arco Iris Bilingual Childrenâs Center: https://arcoirisbcc.com/about-us/
Learn more about Child Care Aware of America: https://www.childcareaware.org
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Rachel Barstow works every day to provide quality and caring education to students with disabilities and while promoting disability visibility. When the pandemic hit, Rachelâs center had to figure out how to adapt a tactile learning environment to a virtual setting. Rachel and the center were able to work in person even before vaccines thanks to the extraordinary efforts they took to keep their students and staff safe. Round table guests: Model, producer and Deaf advocate Nyle DiMarco and Shawn Ullman, Senior Director of National Initiatives at the Arc.
Learn more about Childrenâs Center for Communication: https://cccbsd.org
Learn more about The Nyle DiMarco Foundation: https://nyledimarcofoundation.com
Learn more about The Arc: https://thearc.org
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Roundtable guests Lindsay Toczylowski and Emem DuPuis Maurus elaborate on part-one of the âCasa de Arcoirisâ mini-series. As immigration attorneys, Lindsay and Emem work together to support migrants on both sides of the US/Mexico border, oftentimes working directly with migrants who have stayed at Casa Arcoiris with director Cristina Franco Abundis, from part-one of the mini-series. When the pandemic hit and the border closed, Cristina, Emem, And Lindsay continued working to provide legal aid, safe housing, mental health resources, and joy to the migrants they support.
Learn more about Casa Arco Iris: https://casaarcoiris.org/en/, https://www.instagram.com/alberguecasaarcoiris/?hl=en
Learn more about Immigrant Defenders Law Center: https://www.immdef.org/
Learn more about Transgender Law Center: https://transgenderlawcenter.org/
Learn more about the Border Butterflies Project: https://borderbutterfliesproject.org/
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When the US/Mexico border closed during the pandemic, migrants were forced to wait indefinitely as their asylum cases were put on hold. For LGBTQ+ migrants, finding safe, non-discriminatory housing while waiting at the border is a challenge. In 2018, Casa Arcoiris was founded in Tijuana to be a temporary, safe housing space for LGBTQ+ migrants. At Casa Arcoiris, Director Cristina Franco Abundis takes care of her community members, providing medical care, legal aid, mental healthcare, and joy through the arts. During the pandemic, Cristina and her team found creative ways to continue bringing joy to their residents, and kept their residents healthy while the house was on lockdown. Part one of a two-part mini series: "Una Casa De Arcoiris."
Learn more about Casa Arco Iris: https://casaarcoiris.org/en/, https://www.instagram.com/alberguecasaarcoiris/?hl=en
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When the pandemic began, journalist Ashton Pittman began working at the Mississippi Free Press, a new nonprofit media outlet, not realizing what the future would hold. At a time when local, national, and global communities relied heavily on news outlets for an accurate portrayal of the Covid pandemic, Ashtonâs work to provide fair and accurate journalism became essential. Not only reporting on Covid-19 but also on the Black Lives Matter protests in Mississippi, Ashton came face to face with combating misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, all the while uplifting stories of Mississipians in a media desert. Roundtable guests: Award-winning journalists Maria Hinojosa from Latino USA on NPR and Julio Ricardo Varela from Latino Rebels, both produced by the Futuro Media Group.
Learn more about the Mississippi Free Press: http://mississippifreepress.org/
Learn more about Maria and Julioâs podcast, In The Thick: https://www.inthethick.org
Learn more about Futuro Media: https://www.futuromediagroup.org
Learn more about Latino Rebels: https://www.latinorebels.com
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Ben Hess and his grocery store co-workers did not know they would be on the frontlines of a pandemic when they took their jobs. Not only did they have to worry daily about getting sick, they also had to manage customers frustrated at following safety protocols and deal with empty shelves. While Ben continued working hard, the pandemic took a big toll on his physical and mental health. Roundtable guests: Actress and activist Sophia Bush, and Jim Araby, the Director of Strategic Campaigns at United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 Union.
Learn more about United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 Union: https://ufcw5.org/
Learn more about Work in Progress, Sophia Bushâs podcast: apple.co/workinprogress
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Despite the risks, there is no place Dr. Lance Whitehair would rather be than the hospital. A family doctor for the Indian Health Service, Dr. Whitehair has been on the frontlines fighting COVID from the onset. As frightening as that fight has been, he has also borne witness to the incredible resilience of his Navajo community. On this weekâs episode, Dr. Whitehair shares his passion for medicine along with the love he has for his patients. Roundtable guests: President of the Navajo Nation, Jonathan Nez, and Allie Young of Protect the Sacred.
Learn more about Protect the Sacred: https://www.protectthesacred.care/
Learn more about Harness: https://iwillharness.com/
Learn more about President Nez: https://www.opvp.navajo-nsn.gov/About-Us/Office-of-the-President-and-Vice-President
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When Liz Abunaw saw the lack of grocery stores and other basic services on the West Side of Chicago, she used her MBA background to start a community-centered grocery service that not only pays tribute to the United Statesâ first farmers, but also ensures healthy produce is available on the West Side. 2020 brought not only the pandemic to affect Lizâs business, but also brought a national outcry for racial justice. And in the Spring/Summer of 2020 when Black Lives Matter protests were happening around the country in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Liz saw an uptick of sales in tandem with national campaigns to support Black-owned businesses. Roundtable guests: Pinky Cole, creator of Slutty Vegan and Keshia Knight Pulliam- actor and co-founder of the Fearless Fund.
Learn more about 40 Acres Fresh Market: https://www.fortyacresfreshmarket.com/
Learn more about Pinky Cole, Slutty Vegan and the Pinky Cole Foundation: https://sluttyveganatl.com/about/ ; https://pinkygivesback.com/
Learn more about Keshia Knight Pulliamâs Kamp Kizzy and the Fearless Fund: http://kampkizzy.org/about-us/ ; https://www.fearless.fund/
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